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- BAG Filed Jan. 11, 1955 INVENTOR. John T. Cumb\er' ATTOEN Y United States Patent BAG John T. Cumbler, Titusville, N. J., assignor to The Taylor Provision Co., Trenton, N. J., a corporation of New Jersey Application January 11, 1955, Serial No. 481,071

4 Claims. (Cl. 150-1) ing and expensive. Moreover, when the bag is hung on the loop of the knot, the entire weight of the bag is borne by the knot and, if the knot should slip'under the. strain, the bag will not only fall but the end will open and the contents may be exposed or spilled.

To overcome these disadvantages of the prior art, applicant has devised a novel bag which may be closed much more rapidly and which relieves the strain on the closing means when the bag is hung. Furthermore, with applicants construction, the bag will not open in the event of a fall and, should the bag open while hung, it will not fall. J The advantages of applicants invention are preferably accomplished by providing a bag having a loop formed integral with the bag or as an incident to the formation of the bag, thus eliminating the necessity of forming a loop when closing the bag. The bag may be secured closed in any suitable manner, but is preferably held by staples or the like. Thus, when hung, the weight of the bag is not carried by the closing means and the tendency for slippage of the closing means is reduced.

Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a novel bag for prepared meat products which relieves the strain on the closure when the bag is hung.

A further object of the present invention is to provide a novel bag for prepared meat products which will not open if the bag should fall.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a novel bag for prepared meat products which will not fall if the closing means should become loosened when the bag is hung.

A specific object of the present invention is to provide a novel bag for prepared meat products having a loop formed thereon by which the bag may be hung for display, storage or other purposes.

These and other objects and features of the present invention will be apparent from the following description thereof wherein reference is made to the figures of the accompanying drawing.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a perspective of a typical bag embodying the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a perspective of a portion of the bag of Fig. 1 showing the bag packed and closed; and

Fig. 3 is a perspective of a portion of a modified bag embodying the present invention.

In that form of the invention chosen for purposes of illustration in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawing, a bag 2 is shown as comprising a single piece of cloth which is folded centrally and has a cord or thread 4 sewn across the bottom 6 and up the side 8 in any conventional manner, for example, in a lock or chain stitch. This stitching or thread forms a seam and serves to secure the edges together to form the bag. The upper end 10 of the bag 2 is left open, as seen in Fig. 1, to permit the meat products to be inserted into the bag.

In addition, the thread 4 extends above the upper end 10 of the bag 2 and is formed into a loop 12 The end 14 of the thread is then brought back and sewn into the seam 8. If desired, two or more threads may, obviously, be used to form the loop 12 or, preferably, the stitching, as a whole, may be extended beyond the end of the bag and formed into a loop. This latter form has an advantage in that the stitching is stronger than merely the sum of the threads and, consequently, the loop, when so formed, can support greater weights. Obviously, if desired, the bag may be turned inside out after the stitching has been completed so that the seam' will be on the inside of the bag as seen in Figs. ,1-3 and the finished bag willpresent an attractive and salable appearance.

Preferably, this operation is done by the bag manu facturer since it can be accomplished at this point with little, if any, alteration of the, present manufacturing procedures. Moreover, the bags are'usually manufactured by machine, whereas theyare closed by hand atthe packing plant. Consequently, the loops can be formed by the bag manufacturer with considerably less expense and at a greaterrate of speed than by the packer. With this procedure, all that the meat packer need'do is pack his product into the bag, draw the upper end 10 together to close 'the bag, and fasten it. The fastening may, obviously, still be accomplishedby tying, if desired. How ever, since'the bag is already formed with a loop. 12, it is not; necessary to provide an additional loopwhen securing the bag closed. Moreover, the loop, being a part of the bag itself, is entirely independent of the closing means used. Therefore, even though the bag is closed and tied with a cord, as in prior practice, it is no longer necessary to perform the extra operation of forming a loop in the cord for suspending the filled bag. Thus, the speed with which the bags are tied will be increased and, when hung, the knot will be relieved of the strain due to the weight of the bag. Furthermore, if desired, the expensive and time consuming operation of manually tying the bags can be eliminated and the bags can be secured by any desired type of closing means, for example, by sewing or in other suitable manners, and preferably, by a metal staple or clip 16, as seen in Fig. 2.

In addition to facilitating more rapid closing of the bags, the present invention has several other important advantages. For example, the loop makes a convenient means for suspending unfilled bags ready for use and in orderly arrangement. Moreover, as pointed out above, with prior art constructions, the custom has been to manually tie the bags closed and to make a knot having a loop which was used to hang the bags for display, storage and the like. However, in addition to the forces normally tending to open the bag, such hanging causes the knot to support the entire weight of the bag. Thus, unless the knot is extremely well tied, these forces will cause the knot to slip, thereby allowing the bag to open and fall to the floor, exposing or spilling its contents.

However, with applicants construction, the loop for hanging the bag is independent of the closing means.

Consequently, the weight of the bag is not supported by the closing means and the likelihood of a failure of either the loop or the closing means is reduced. Moreover,

3 if the loop should fail and allow the bag to fall, the closing means will still hold the bag closed and prevent opening thereof. On the other hand, if the closing means should fail while the bag is hung, the loop would continue-to hold the open end of the bag upright and the contents would not spill.

If desired, as illustrated in- Fig. 3, the bag 2 may be formed from a sheet of material having a small strip 22 projecting from one edge thereof. When the sheet is folded to form the bag, the strip 22 is doubled back on itself to form a loop 24. Thus, when the seam 8 is sewed, the end 26 of the strip 22 will be secured. This form of the bag is used in the same manner as that of Figs. 1 and 2. 9

The specific material from which the bag is formed is immaterial and the manner in which the bag is closed is a matter of choice. Moreover, the loop may be located at or adjacent the upper end of thebag as a matter of choice. In addition, numerous changes and modifica tions may be made without-depa'rtingfrom the present invention. Therefore, it should be clearly understood that those forms of the invention described above and shown in the figures of the accompanying drawing are illustrative only and are notintended to limit the scope of the invention.

What I claim is: V

1. A bag for packaging prepared meat comprising a substantially rectangularsheet of fabric folded centrally in half with the edges of the fabric secured together by stitching extending along one end and one side so .as to close the bag at the bottom and one side whilethe opposite side of the bag is closed by the central fold of the fabric, the stitching extending beyond the open end of the bag and being reversely turned to form a loop extending beyond the open end of the bag, the reversely turned end of the stitching being secured to the fabric of the bag to hold the loop securely in place.

2. A bag for packaging prepared meat comprising a substantially rectangular sheet of fabric folded centrally in half with the edges of the fabric secured together by stitching extending'along one end and'one side-so as to close the bag at the bottom and one side while the 'opposite side of the bag is closed by the central fold of the fabric, the stitching extending beyond the open endof the bag and being reversely turned to form a loop extending beyond the open end of the bag, the reversely turned end of the stitching being secured to the fabric of the bag to hold the loop securely in place, and means independent of said fabric and'said stitching and serving to maintain said open end of said bag closed after the meat has been packed therein.

3. A bag for meat products comprising fabric material folded to present overlapping edges, multiple thread stitching passing through the overlapping portions of the fabric and forming a seam extending along the bottom and one side of the bag, said stitching extending from said seam beyond the mouth of the bag and being folded back onto the fabric at the seam and again sewn to the fabric to form a loop by which the bag may be suspended.

4. A bag for meat products comprising fabric material folded to present overlapping edges, multiple thread stitching passing through the overlapping portions of the fabric and forming a seam extending along the bottom and one side of the bag, said stitchingextending from said seam beyond the mouth of the bag and being folded back onto the fabric at the seam and again sewn to the fabric to form a loop by which the bag may be suspended and means independent of said stitching for closing the top of the bag.

References Cited in the file of this patent V UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,063,714 May June 3,1913 1,233,784 Hutchison July 17, 1917 1,910,789 Brady May 23, 1933 2,096,161 Curran Oct. 19, 1937 2,163,324 Reinhold June20, 1939 2,655,450 Ames Oct. 13, 1953 FOREIGN PATENTS 18,665 Great Britain .1895 787,750 France July 16, 1935 

